Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.